Women and Children Welfare

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Women and Child WelfareImpact of environment on childrenWater born diseases are affecting 6 million children in IndiaChildhood cancer rates are also increasing by 6% every yearGrowing foetus in the mother’s womb is not safe & free from the adverse effects of environment toxinsInitiatives taken on International level :United Nations Decade for Women (1975-85) included several women related welfare issues on international agendaCEDAW (International Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination against Women, 1979) is one of the result of the program for protection & promotion of women’s human right & socio-economic upliftmentNeed for child welfare1 million out of 21 million babies born every year in India are abandoned soon after their birth due to different socio-economic reasonsChild labourInitiative of Childline India foundation- case of child beggarsCHILDLINE contacted their parents and brought them to the center.The parents were provided with counselling and warned not to send them for begging. CHILDLINE has assured to provide assistance for education of the children.During outreach, Madurai CHILDLINE team came across 5 children in the age group of 10 to 16 years performing acrobatics such as passing their body through an iron ring, walking on their hands upside down, etc.Women & Child WelfareNeed for women welfareWomen and children are the soft targets.They are the victims of capitalism, development & environmentThey suffer in a number of ways because they are: Weaker Helpless Economically dependent etc.2. Initiative of Akanksha FoundationChild WelfareInitiatives takenWorld summit on children on Sep 30, 1990Declaration of the rights of a child by United Nations in 1959, which became international law in 1990 with 54 articlesThe law defines:Right to SurvivalRight to ProtectionRight to DevelopmentRight to ParticipationNational plan of action for children has been formulated by ministry of HRDProblems Faced by Children :Child labour.Malnutrition.No education.Undergo many dreadfull diseases like: 1. Pneumonia 2. Diarrhoea 3. Measles 4. MalariaWorking in hazardous places to feed themselves.Undergo many respiratory problems due to pollution in the environment.Steps taken to improve the condition of WOMENCases of NGOs concerned with child welfareAction Aid India concentrates on child education and on street and working childrenCRY targets underprivileged children who don’t have basic resources to sustain themselves. Butterflies engage themselves in offering free education to poor kids. They teach children living in slums in Delhi. CARE India with branches in 11 states focus on girls’ education. Prayas address issues related to lack of sensitivity and infrastructure for children’s rehabilitation, education, and reintegration.Women’s Issues in the Developing WorldDowryChild MarriageFemale InfanticideSexual Harassment and RapeWomen TraffickingEducationSanitation“Women are a part of Society and Not apart from Society""Children are our most valuable resource."Herbert Hoover, 31st U.S. president"There are people in the world so hungry that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread."Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity. ~AristotleWomen and children are the backbone of our society their welfare is our priorityThank youBy Aakarsh Mehta Karan Agarwal Jakin Jagani Manav DesaiAim for women welfare:Development of women in social, physical and psychological fields.Making them aware of rights they enjoy and providing them with the same.Making them free from all the troubles they face.Giving them the gender equality in society.Fighting against crimes faced by women.

Aim for children development:Providing every child free education.Providing them basic amenities that they are ought to get.Fighting against the crimes faced by children.DowryDowry refers to “….the property, money, ornaments or any other form of wealth which a man or his family receives from his wife or her family at the time of marriage.” Child MarriageChild marriage is defined as a formal marriage or informal union before age 18. While child marriage is observed for both boys and girls, disproportionately most affected worldwide are girls. It is related to child betrothal and unmarried teenage pregnancy.According to UNICEF’s “State of the World’s Children-2009” report, 47% of India's women aged 20–24 were married before the legal age of 18, rising to 56% in rural areas. The report also showed that 40% of the world's child marriages occur in India.Female InfanticideIn rural areas where a lot of people do not have access to sex determination facilities, female infanticide is shockingly common. The parents wait until the mother gives birth, and when they find out that a daughter is born, they go ahead and kill the baby by adopting various means such as strangling the baby, giving her poison, dumping her in a garbage bin, drowning her, burying her alive, starving her, stuffing her mouth with salt, or leaving her outdoors overnight so she dies of exposure. Sexual Harassment and RapeEve teasing is a euphemism used for sexual harassment or molestation of women by men. Many activists blame the rising incidents of sexual harassment against women on the influence of "Western culture". In 1987, The Indecent Representation of Women (Prohibition) Act was passed to prohibit indecent representation of women through advertisements or in publications, writings, paintings or in any other manner.Rape in India has been described by Radha Kumar as one of India's most common crimes against women and by the UN’s human-rights chief as a “national problem”. In the 1980s, women's rights groups lobbied for marital rape to be declared unlawful, as until 1983, the criminal law (amendment) act stated that "sexual intercourse by a man with his own wife, the wife not being under fifteen years of age is not rape".Women TraffickingSex and labor trafficking of women is a complicated phenomenon with many forces that affect women's decisions to work abroad. Perhaps the strongest factor is a desperate economic situation, which impacts the availability of satisfactory employment in many countries for women more severely than men. Women may become victims of trafficking when they seek assistance to obtain employment, work permits, visas and other travel documents.

1. Providing Free Education to Women

2. Providing women with employment

3. Hygienic life conditions for women

4. Protecting them from crimes

5. Spreading Awareness

In 1929 a group of visionary women including Rajkumari Amrit Kaur, Sarojini Naidu,Aruna Asaf Ali and Lady Dorothy Irwin instituted the All India Women’s Education Fund Association (AIWEFA)with the objective of putting power into the hands of women. AIWEFASABLAThe Rajiv Gandhi Scheme for Empowerment of Adolescent Girls (RGSEAG) Sabla is a centrally sponsored program of Government of India initiated on April 1, 2011 under Ministry of Women and Child Development.An integrated package of services is provided to adolescent girls as follows:

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